Word: sicilianism
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...undoubtedly one of the most hopeless hi-fi addicts who ever attenuated a treble. Last week, while on vacation in London, he relieved some of his anxieties by hiring 63 off-duty members of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra to record his favorite ballet music from Verdi's Sicilian Vespers and Rossini's William Tell. Bowes first hit on the tape-it-yourself idea while visiting a musician friend who was making a recording. He got fascinated with the possibility of filling in the gaps in his stereo-tape library with his own recordings, and when he learned that...
...contrary, the lady's husband (Lando Buzzanca), a Sicilian yokel whose passion for honor is exceeded only by his lust for lucre, has hardly any difficulty deciding how much the honor of his bride (Maria Grazia Buccella) is worth. A few days later he discovers it was worth less than he thought. The police inform him that 1) the million-lira check has bounced, and 2) he will go to jail unless he can explain what he did to earn so much money...
...band, held together by blood oaths and eerie ritual, whose product was "Protection" and whose sell was never soft. Farmers paid to have their cattle not killed or their wells not poisoned. Lovers paid for the right to a few unharried moments in the moonlight. All the institutions of Sicilian society-church, aristocracy, political parties-either went along with the Mafia or actively participated in it. In one monastery, a monk member of the Mafia slew a district Mafia chief, who also happened to be his father superior...
Such a one is Danilo Dolci, a 41-year-old Italian who for 14 years has headed a volunteer movement designed to lift a few Sicilian villages out of a squalor unmatched in Europe and to raise the inhabitants from the torpor of despair. Dolci (TIME, April 9, 1956) has been proposed for the Nobel Peace Prize, denounced by the Cardinal Archbishop of Palermo; he has won the support of many Communists and some Jesuits, been threatened by the Mafia, and been prosecuted for obscenity by the Italian government for his book Report from Palermo. In common with most...
...Roman Catholic Church, Dolci is now a "lapsed Catholic," and he blames the breach on the "lack of a tradition of charity, even on the level of almsgiving" of the church in Sicily. His fall from the faith he also attributes to the sermons of two Sicilian priests: one denounced a destitute congregation of peasants as "a pack of Jews" for failing to supply the church lire they did not have; the other instructed his peasant parishioners to ostracize sinners...